Satellite images of the city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The image on the left was taken on 4 April 2010. The one on the right was taken on Saturday 12 March, one day after the quake and tsunami struck the Oshika Peninsula

25 March: The grandmother of deceased brothers 16-year-old Itaru and 19-year-old Ren Kashiwagi, killed by the tsunami, touches a portrait of one of them as their father Yoshinori carries the boys' remains away from the crematorium